What is real and what is fiction? Faced with writer's block with his novel, Lewis Fielding turns to a film script about a woman finding herself after his wife Elizabeth returns from Baden Baden. She didn't quite find herself there but had a brief encounter in a lift with a German who says he is a poet. Now the German is in England, gets himself invited to tea where he claims he admires Fielding's books. Which one does he like the best? "Tom Jones." Amused at being confused with the other Fielding, the novelist works the German into the plot. 什么是真实？什么是虚构？影片中英国作家路易斯·弗雷丁在写小说思路受阻，无从下笔时，在他的妻子从国外度假回来后，他转向写一部关于一位女人找到自我的电影脚本。他的妻子在国外没有找到自我，但在电梯里遇到了一位自称是诗人的德国年轻人，二人有了暧昧的关系。后来，那位德国年轻人去了英国，他被邀请在路易斯家中做客喝茶，并表白他很喜欢和欣赏路易斯的书。那位德国年轻人真正喜欢的是什么呢？是路易斯的书呢？还是路易斯的妻子？路易斯对此深感有趣但也迷惑不解，这位小说家把这位德国年轻人的形象塑造在他的脚本中。
